Mourning Clothes

This is wore today to collect and bury one of my cats. It wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would be but it wasn’t exactly present. I can imagine the face she would have given me as dressed up as this; she would always give me a “Oh, god. You’re such an embarrassment.” expression with her ears folded back and I would just ruffle her fur and give her a cuddle. She was the most eloquent cat I’d ever known. Personally, I love my cats more than most humans but the stages of loss always hit me pretty hard and fast in the first twenty-four hours and then I recover dramatically.

Outfit:

Shirt: Supanova.
Skirt: EBay/H&M.
Stockings: EBay.
Boots: Dr. Martens.
Necklace: Second-hand.
Cardigan: Socks and Jocks.
Earrings: Self-made; They’re just simple hooks with safety-pins on them.

Today I toned down my eye-make up but upped my lips. I still very much love this colour! I also rag-curled my hair last night. I took a bit more time to section my hair off into small sections and it turned out great. It’s going on nine hours and the curls have only dropped slightly – without hairspray.

Lastly, here are just a few of the pictures I found on my computer of her. ❤

Best wishes,
-SaryWalrus

Band Review: The Cog Is Dead

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The Cog Is Dead is essentially a steampunk band but an underlying theme of the band is their fictional back story. Each song is set with different steampunk themes and their ‘costumes’ are amazingly detailed.

As obvious the Steampunk genre influences the band heavily but The Cog Is dead also draws inspiration from
Russian Folk Music, Rock n’ Roll, Ragtime, Punk Rock, Reggae, Showtunes and Movie Scores combined, as well as others. Though each song varies they try to keep the energy, beauty and fun unified in each.

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The band was started in 2006 by John Mondelli, after reading the phrase ‘The Cog Is Dead’ randomly in the play “The Real Thing” and soon after applied the Steampunk theme along side it. They have released one album Steam Powered Stories (2010) with track titles such as 9self titled The Cog Is Dead, The Copper War, The Inventors Daughter and Mechanical Menagerie, among others.

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As noted in the introduction The Cog Is Dead is heavily influenced by their fictional back story. Their fictional back story is basically this: John Sprocket was disgusted was a simple clock maker, with a fond love of clockwork and cogs. When met with the news that a digital clock was being created he called on his good friend Sir Christofer Wolfe, in means to travel into the future to see if digital clocks were just a fad or a permanent change. They soon collected the help of the mechanic, Tony Seville and Joey the navigator and were on their way a hundred years into the future with their flying time machine. When met with the new ‘electric’ world they made it their mission to travel around the world and persuade people to change over to steam power, using their mechanical melodies and steam powered songs.

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The Cog Is Dead takes fashion inspiration from Steampunk (Duh) commiting themselves to mostly whites, creams, browns, blacks and brassy tones. Their outfits include waist coats, top hats, goggles, stop watches and the usual. Each instrument of the band goes under a steampunk transformation, created guitars covered in cogs and sprockets and even customized accordions, ukulele, banjo and kazoo.

The Cog Is Dead being a kickass Steampunk, time traveler, band from the 1800’s, what isn’t to love?

-Ms. Walrus.

Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl

This is (in my opinion) one of the most adorable and hilariously creepy cartons and comics I have ever seen, created by Roman Dirge. Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl stars an adorable little girl named Lenore (of course!), who is based on the Poem Lenore and other contributing poems (For example The Raven) by Edgar Allen Poe, and her vampire dolly sidekick: Ragamuffin. Throughout the series we follow Lenore and Ragamuffin throughout various scenarios watching adoringly, horrified and amused all at once.

Lenore is, of course, a little dead girl who comes back to life to play and explore in a small town called Nevermore. She keeps many pets and loves creatures but ends up killing them all in her naive innocence. We follow her through her adventures of exploring the wilderness of her mansion and nearby graveyard. Ragamuffin on the other hand is much older and wiser, having been a vampire in a former life which was turned into a doll by one of his victim’s, sister. Lenore found him and added him to her toy box, happily unaware.

At first glance this cartoon will seem very childish but it can also be very gruesome and darkly humored. Surprisingly a lot of aspects of the cartoon and comic are based of the works of Edgar Allen Poe, including the name of the town, Nevermore (From The Raven) and other such features. I’m sure this cartoon won’t be for everyone but it is only 26 episodes of only fifteen minute and worth checking out! Roman Dirges website (Which is listed below) also has a gallery of his finer artwork. Why not have a look and release your inner Gothling? Who knows, you might enjoy it.

—SaryWalrus AKA Lucy Diamond

P.S. All pictures are taken from Roman Dirge’s website. Here’s the free link to Roman Dirges official website, enjoy! Link.